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Crime, social media the dominant themes for new laws coming to California

Courthouse News Service

Democratic lawmakers mostly opposed Proposition 36, instead favoring a series of crime bills they said augmented Proposition 47 but kept its criminal justice reforms intact. Republicans argued Proposition 36 was needed and lambasted urgency and inoperability clauses in the crime bills.

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